innumerate

The Government seems to assume that most people are innumerate.

We would not accept such innumerate policies in the private sector.

The term is used as innumerate shorthand for all such parties, or sometimes only the largest of them.

They are also given a constrained curriculum, and targets set by an innumerate monkey.

Any striking teacher who doesn't accept this is either innumerate or incredibly selfish.

People who are proud to be innumerate.

He is highly irritated by innumerate people.

No one forced the 3G operators to pay that much, it was an auction (apparently between innumerate madmen).

The percentage of illiterate and innumerate youngsters varies among ethnic groups and parents' socioeconomic status.

I find the innumerate fumbling of hacks depressing but it would be much easier if originating sources were always cited.

Something about being innumerate?

Please, someone deliver us from these raving climate lunatics and their worthless, innumerate enablers in the press before it is too late.

"Who is the innumerate commentator?"

This idea of humantiies graduates being innumerate and completely devoid of business acumen needs to change.

Meanwhile, employers turn away illiterate and innumerate "graduates", and turn to qualified Polish immigrants instead.

As long as it continues, we will get the dual phenomena of rising test scores and too many illiterate and innumerate citizens.

Illiterate and innumerate adults are less likely to vote or own their own home, and more prone to physical and mental health problems.

Fortunately, a brief look at these articles revealed that Mr. Coren is innumerate and his conclusions need not be taken seriously.

The book is a charming, literate and, even for the mildly innumerate reader, generally understandable account of Mr. Wiles's remarkable achievement.

No wonder, in the Newtonian age that preceded the Revolution, wit ruled; no wonder, in our innumerate society, it is barely even a subject.

Such "innumerate" decisions, to borrow a word popularized by John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, have clear consequences.

But the great British public is serenely innumerate and resistant to facts and figures, so it goes on being used as an argument and an item in debates.

It seems obvious to me that an innumerate person lacks skills essential to being a competent journalist - does the Guardian's recruitment process make any attempt to screen for such people?

For example, if a patient has been diagnosed with breast cancer, being innumerate may hinder the patient's ability to comprehend her physician's recommendations or even the severity of the health concern.

But allow a single terrorist incident to take place in Europe, or the newspapers to report some tenuous connection between chemical residues and disease, and a kind of innumerate panic sets in.